"I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!"
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"Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know."
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"Those dull, unmusterious city unemployables, dressed in their grey, secondhand suits."
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"My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set."
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"Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom."
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"You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating."
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"You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime."
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"Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst."
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"If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull."
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"Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious."
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"According to legend. Telford is so dull that the by-pass was built before the town."
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"When we're trying to move on, the moments we go back to aren't dull ones. They're the big moments that meant everything."
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"Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence."
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"The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent."
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"He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry."
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"I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness."
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"Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull."
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"The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind."
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"There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull."
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"It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people."
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